Quotes of Sylvia Townsend Warner - somelinesforyou

“ During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat’s yawn, “I think I will go to my grave now,” and had left the room. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Sir Maugre’s erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Inflation is the senility of democracies. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Inflation is the senility of democracies. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Inflation is the senility of democracies. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Inflation is the senility of democracies. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ To think of losing is to lose already. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ To think of losing is to lose already. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner
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